Song Mingyue

Chapter 257 Impeachment
The battle for the first shooter was fought between Yang Zaixing and Hua Rong.

Last round!
This time, no one shouted, tens of thousands of soldiers in the audience, including all Jin Yiwei, all focused their eyes on Hua Rong.

Sunset on the west mountain, with the last rays of afterglow shining slantingly, Hua Rong, dressed in white robe and silver armor, straddled a snow-white war horse, slowly galloped out of the queue in the faint afterglow, holding a three-stone gun in his hand. Bao Diao bow, his face calm and calm.

I saw him holding the bow in his left hand and taking out five arrows from the quiver with his right hand, and retreated four or five hundred steps away again.

Zhao Hao said loudly: "Beat the drum!"

Boom!Boom!Boom!
The sound of the war drum sounded like knocking on the hearts of all the soldiers, pushing the atmosphere of the audience to the peak.

The horseshoes were like the wind, and the war drums were like thunder. Amidst the earth-shattering and rapid sound of the drums, the man and the horse rushed forward like a streamer.

At the moment when the white horse was about to touch the 150-step line, Hua Rong had already bent his bow and set up an arrow, and shot five arrows in salvo, and the arrows shot away like shooting stars.

Five beams of light drew five neat arcs in the air, and they disappeared in a flash.

The sound of the war drums stopped abruptly, the audience was completely silent, and the needles could be heard, and tens of thousands of eyes were fixed on the five arrow targets hanging in front of them.

A general in charge of supervising the competition rode his horse straight to the archery target, passed from left to right, and then returned to the field. He couldn't restrain his excited voice, and shouted loudly: "All five arrows hit the bull's-eye! "

ho ho ho ~
All Jin Yiwei cheered first, followed by tens of thousands of soldiers cheering in unison, and the huge sound waves roared like mountains and seas.

At this moment, Yang Zaixing rode his horse straight to Hua Rong's side, and shouted loudly: "General Hua is really the best shot in the world, Yang is not as good as it!"

……

The archery competition in the school field not only made Huarong's name known as a god of archery, but also known to all the armed forces, and also taught the forbidden army the magic and charm of archery. The subsequent transformation of the Heshuo forbidden army also became a matter of course.

Zhao Hao appointed Hua Rong as the head coach of the Northern Expedition Army's bow and crossbow, Yang Zaixing as the deputy head coach, Liang Hongyu, Yan Qing, Sun Li and several people who participated in the competition that day were all coaches to guide the training of the crossbowmen.

At this moment, Cai You and Cai Mao also rode fast horses into the capital and headed straight for the imperial palace following the memorial.

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Royal Palace.

In Ninghe Hall, Zhao Ji was wearing a light shirt, lying on the couch with his eyes slightly closed, and Xiao Cuixiang was sitting sideways, pinching his shoulders.

Xiao Cuixiang's massage skills, under the guidance of Zhao Hao, are extremely precise in the location of each acupuncture point. In addition, her pair of jade hands are soft and boneless, soft and soft when pressed, but extremely strong, only Zhao Ji can press it. He was so comfortable that he hummed and screamed.

After a long time, Xiao Cuixiang finally pressed Zhao Ji from head to toe, rested, sweating slightly on her forehead, and sat aside.

Zhao Ji's whole body was well-groomed, with countless comforts and coziness. With the support of two court ladies, he sat up slowly, took the ginseng soup handed over by the eunuch, rinsed his mouth, and when he looked up, he saw Liang Shicheng standing in front of him. Aside, there seems to be something to say.

Zhao Ji handed the ginseng soup cup to the maid at the side, took a piece of soft silk cloth and wiped his hands, then said slowly: "Shoudao?"

Seeing that Zhao Ji had finished his work, Liang Shicheng took a few steps forward and said respectfully, "Saint Wanan!"

Zhao Ji nodded, and asked: "What's the matter in the north? After a few cities, when can we go straight to Yanjing?"

By the way, Zhao Ji is also a strange thing. The Song army has only been in Mozhou for ten days, and the Western army has not yet joined, so he asked when he could go straight to Yanjing.Judging from the distance from Bianliang to Yanjing, even if you only march all the way without fighting, the time to reach Yanjing is not enough.

Liang Shicheng said anxiously: "The old slave is about to report this matter. The army has been in Mozhou for more than ten days, and the Western Army is about to arrive. It's just that the justice of Longde County is training soldiers and horses, so they stay put. If you want to send troops, you may have to wait More than a month."

When Zhao Ji heard this, he was stunned.

In his imagination, it should be that as soon as Wang Shi’s army arrived, the Han people in the Liao area became leaders one after another; , and even opened the door to offer the city.Now that so much time has passed, Zhuozhou has to be captured no matter what, and the three armies should have gone straight to kill Yanjing.

Now that he heard that he was still standing still in Mozhou, he felt very angry, and said angrily: "Tong Daofu has been caressing the border for 20 years, and has experienced hundreds of battles. How can he be so timid?"

Liang Shicheng said anxiously: "It is said that Tong Xuanshuai is not to blame for this incident. I heard that during this march, the Longde County Government suppressed Xuanshuai everywhere and acted arbitrarily. Now, in the name of rectifying the Heshuo Forbidden Army, they are killing innocent people and mistreating soldiers. All three armies complained..."

After finishing speaking, he took the two brocade boxes from the eunuch next to him, and said respectfully: "The specific matter, I only heard from hearsay, and I can't confirm it yet. This is the memorial presented to the saint by the two deputy ambassadors. For fear of delaying the great event of the Northern Expedition, I urgently present it to the saint."

Zhao Ji was stunned, and waved, first took Cai You's memorial, and read it carefully, his face was covered with dark clouds.Immediately after reading Cai Mao's memorial, his face became more and more gloomy.

You must know that the two Cai belong to different camps. Cai Mao belongs to Cai Jing's party, and Cai You belongs to Tong Guan, Wang Fu, Liang Shicheng and others. I have to believe it.

For Liang Shicheng and others, Zhao Hao had repeatedly suppressed Cai Jing's party before. The so-called enemy's enemy is a friend, so they have no hostility towards Zhao Hao, but occasionally help them.Now that Zhao Hao and the Qingliu party members wanted to steal the merits of the Northern Expedition and affect their interests, that was the enemy, and their attitude towards Zhao Hao was also a 180-degree turn.

What made them even more annoyed was that Zhao Hao was just stealing credits. After all, the coach was still Tong Guan, so there was no way to grab credits. However, Cai You's secret letter made them completely furious.According to Cai You's report, Zhao Hao took advantage of his clan status and personal prestige, and teamed up with his brothers, masters and Taoists, to suppress Tong Guan. The power of the Northern Expedition was all controlled by Zhao Hao... Tong Guan was just a puppet.

Seeing that the Northern Expedition, which had been painstakingly planned for many years, was about to be picked by Zhao Hao, asked Liang Shicheng, Wang Fu and others not to be angry.Once Liang Shicheng and Wang Fu list Zhao Hao as an enemy, they will naturally spare no effort to suppress him.

Fortunately, Zhao Ji was not stupid, he knew that Zhao Hao belonged to a party in the court, and he was at odds with Cai Jing's party and Tong Guan's party... This was also his original intention.He likes to practice the art of controlling the emperor, and he is determined to cultivate Zhao Hao as a third-party force, and the three forces will check each other, so that he can better reflect his authority as a king.Even though he heard that Cai Mao and Cai You joined forces to attack Zhao Hao, he was still dubious in his heart.

Zhao Ji's eyes flickered, and he asked suddenly: "Does Tong Daofu have a letter? Even though Zhao Hao is arbitrary, he is the coach after all. Don't you have any excuses?"

Liang Shicheng's face changed slightly, and he hurriedly handed over another brocade box, saying: "The memorial of Tong Daofu is about to be presented to the official, but the official asked first."

Liang Shicheng did not dare to open this kind of memorial directly to the audience.Tong Guan did not communicate with him in advance this time, so Liang Shicheng was not sure about Tong Guan's memorial, so he temporarily detained it.As for the memorials of Cai Mao and Cai You, he secretly inquired that they all wanted to impeach Zhao Hao, so he submitted them first.Unexpectedly, Zhao Ji was not confused, so he directly asked about Tong Guan's memorial. Naturally, Liang Shicheng couldn't hide it, so he had to pass it to Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji took Tong Guan's memorial, read it carefully twice, his face changed again, and said angrily: "I don't know why Nephew Zhao is so rude, but it turns out that there is a reason for the incident. The relationship between Cai Mao and Cai You Words are one-sided words!"

After finishing speaking, he threw Tong Guan's memorial on Liang Shicheng: "The Heshuo Forbidden Army is so corrupt, Tong Daofu is helpless, complaining to me, what does this mean? It shows that the Heshuo Forbidden Army is indeed corrupt, no wonder Nephew Zhao wants to rectify this army. "

Liang Shicheng browsed through Tong Guan's memorial, and couldn't help secretly scolding Tong Guan for being incompetent, but he said cautiously: "The saint calms down, but the old slave still can't figure it out... Ma Zhi said that the Han people in the land of Youyan treated Wang Shi hard. , once the army is overwhelmed, the Liao people will be defeated without a fight, and the Liao army in the south is only 4 to 20. Now there are [-] soldiers in Mozhou. In the Imperial Army, the military discipline of the Western Army is not much better. Didn’t the Xixia people lose their helmets and armor? Now that the war is imminent, the Duke of Longde County came to rectify the military discipline. Seeing that the north is getting colder and colder, is there any reason? Suspected of delaying the war opportunity? Besides, the experience of the commander of the army in Longde County, how can it be compared to the Tong Daofu who has been with the side for [-] years, and now he is doing the cooking, and the old slave thinks it is very inappropriate..."

Hearing what Liang Shicheng said, Zhao Ji fell into deep thought again.

Perhaps, what Liang Shicheng said has some truth...

A clan that is not as weak as the crown, has only led the army once, pacified a group of small bandits, and then showed its power in front of Tong Guan, who has made great military achievements in Fubian for 20 years, it is indeed a bit of a great achievement.

And even though Zhao Ji favored Zhao Hao on the surface, in his subconscious, after all, he was somewhat guarded against Zhao Hao.After all, Taizu Taizong, with a yellow robe on his body and a candle shadow and the sound of an axe, as the reigning emperor, it is almost an instinct to guard against the clan.

After thinking about it for a long time, Zhao Ji said slowly: "Draw up an order for me, and order Tong Daofu to send troops to Xiongzhou as soon as the Western Army arrives. All matters should be in the lead, and no one else should be allowed to do so. The Duke of Longde County, as the clan, is in charge of the capital, but his main duty should be to recruit and surrender the Liao people, and he should not participate too much in major affairs of the three armed forces."

Liang Shicheng said anxiously: "Observe the order!"

Zhao Ji waved his hand, with a dispirited expression, signaling Liang Shicheng to back down.

(End of this chapter)